I smirked and nodded quite a bit while reading their latest opus. It was almost like a girl Rush Limbaugh wrote the first part and Jonah Goldberg penned the rest. As J.P. hinted in passing, putting basic assumptions outside of discussion is one of the favourite tools of the orthodoxy.

That said, some of the scholarly types are endearing with their weaboo schtick, just like any regular lover of the anime -- once you discount their biases, of course. One time I was at a lecture by Gilles Poitras, it was hard not to eye-roll when he talked about the way drying futon saves energry. Yet it would be entirely unfair to smear the likes of him with the same brush used to paint the douchebags. He never was a douchebag about the art.

Also:

Just look at a list of anime produced in a given year and there will be a dozen Yoake Mae Cabbage Loves and Pretty Cures for each Kaiba.

He better not insult Feena above.